Friday, October 31, 2008

Quotes From Around The Boo-osphere

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

-- ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Sr.
'Tis now the very witching time of night / When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

-- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite / All are on their rounds tonight / In the wan moon's silver ray / Thrives their helter-skelter play.

-- JOEL BENTON
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

-- ERMA BOMBECK
From ghoulies and ghosties / And long-leggedy beasties /And things that go bump in the night / Good Lord, deliver us!

-- SCOTTISH SAYING
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

-- GEORGE CARLIN
One need not be a chamber to be haunted / One need not be a house / The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

-- EMILY DICKINSON
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

-- JOSEPH CONRAD
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
-- J.M. BARRIE

On Hallowe'en the thing / you must do / Is pretend that nothing / can frighten you /
An' if somethin' scares you / and you want to run / Jus' let on like / it's Hallowe'en fun.

-- 19th CENTURY POSTCARD
Ask not what your pumpkin can do for you, ask what you can do for your pumpkin.

-- AUTHOR UNKNOWN

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